This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
HAROLD WILSONGiven a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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